Saturday, May 11, 2013

Graduation Party/Gift Ideas

With graduation season approaching us, I thought I'd post a few pics of my son's graduation last year. Maybe some of you might get a few ideas. :) All pics enlarge when clicked.

My sweet, sweet best neighbor in the whole wide world made this for my son. :) Isn't it darling? I thought it was so very clever! I loved the use of all the candy bars!

This is just a simple banner I purchased at Dollar Tree.

We just had a small family party at our house. Here's the main food table. The plates, napkins, and table cloth came from Dollar Tree and I think I got the class of 2012 sign at Michael's. We had bunco buns, pickle spears, strawberries with fruit dip, chips, lemonade, and cupcakes. The graduation cap picks came from Party City, I think. It was awhile ago and before blogging, so I didn't think to write stuff down. :) I also framed his graduation announcement to put on the table. If you enlarge the pic and look closely, you can see the "class of 2012" ribbon on the plate/napkin holder. I got it at Michael's. I used it around the dress me up plate in the pic below too.

This pic is actually blurry on purpose. :) But I wanted you to see how I displayed all my son's first day of school pics from pre-school through 12th grade. I just spray painted a large frame, then attached some twine across it. (I just taped the twine to the backside of the frame) then I attached all his 1st day of school pics with mini clothespins. You can't really see it in these pics, but I also put a 2012 sticker (purchased at Walmart) on each plastic cup.

Almost forgot to add this cute outdoor sign. I think we got it at Party City.

Just another table decoration we got at Dollar Tree. We pretty much purchased everything at either Dollar Tree, Walmart, Michael's, or Party City.

Here's a close up of the cupcakes I made. I think I got the cupcake liners at Michael's and I made the little picks by using my punch on some red scrap book paper. I attached the punched out shape to a toothpick with tape. Then I stuck a graduation cap sticker on it. The stickers came in a pack of 20 or so at Walmart. It was an assorted pack and I think some stickers had a grad cap and others said "2012."

14 comments:

Everything is so cute and festive. I love the sign your neighbor made with the candy! You food table looks great, too. I never remember to take a picture until after everyone has dug in. Wondering what bunco buns are?!

My son graduated highschool last year too! How about that? We ended up going out to eat at The Longhorn afterwards, so we didn't do a party. Your party decorations and food looks good! I love the candy card idea too.

So sweet of your neighbor, love the candy poster! Looks like you've thrown a great graduation party...congratulations to the graduate!!!We've just gotten back from spending a week with my mother, we had a great time! Thanks so much for sharing at Amaze Me Monday, hope you will pop over to share at this weeks party...Blessings,Cindy

I’d love for you to share this at my Saturday Dishes Link Party this weekend! It’s a themed link up & this week’s theme is Graduation Party! Feel free to share other old or new posts that fit the theme as well if you have them! (:

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